What Each Color Represented In The Ancient Maya Civilization
Across
- 5. to treat someone or something with extreme love and respect.
- 11. This is what the Maya used to make colors.
- 13. This color was all about strength, sunlight, and getting rid of darkness. It also stood for blood and the sunrise.
- 14. This was the color of the center. It showed humanity as the most important part of the world. It was also the color of Earth's gifts like vegetables and fruits.
- 15. This was the color that stood for water and the sky. It was the color of rivers, lakes, seas, and the sky.
- 17. of very great area, size, or extent.
- 18. colors The colors red, blue, & green. You can mix these colors to make almost any other color.
- 19. Indigo and Palygorskite are both a type of this.
- 21. "Mexico is full of very bright colors no matter where you look. It's like a colorful ____________ in everything around you, like food, buildings, clothes, crafts, and even nature."
- 22. this was the color of dawn, bones, teeth, purity, and health. It was also like light and life-giving fluid.
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- 1. The place where the Indigo and Palygorskite mines were.
- 2. A piece of land with water on three sides of it.
- 3. Maya people thought this color was a color for bad things and the unknown. It meant death and where their ancestors rested. It also meant bad thoughts and rest.
- 4. The man who found out how the Maya made their bright blue color.
- 6. This color meant good crops and family bonds. In the Maya language, they called it Q’anil, which meant maturity, seeds, wealth, and sometimes sickness.
- 7. The color of Maya temples after the effects of time and weather.
- 8. a very ancient type of book.
- 9. Another word for a god.
- 10. a group of very important people or all of the gods in a particular religion.
- 12. This is what the Maya used to make their bright blue color.
- 16. The belief in many gods.
- 20. The belief in only one god.